>>3946473I've been experimenting with camera movement a lot myself, and I really liked the effect in street/night photography, but not so much with artwork. Your subject was much bigger than a typical canvas, right? So it seems you could still get the resolution high enough so its recognisable, while adding an interesting effect. With those small woodblock prints I was shooting, all I got was a blur.
>>3946474The problem is that I rely on that focus technique too much, in all of my photography that isn't just crazy experimental stuff or trying to replicate reality as accurately as possible. I always try to get a sharp viewing angle to the subject and play with focus, and it gets pretty boring fast. As for other photos, I can't really tell you what I didn't like about them particularily, but it was always some mix of not interesting enough, or "too verbatim". For example this one: it was such a strikingly arranged piece in the flesh, and I totally failed to convey the atmosphere of it (or my subjective impression) in the photo, I sort of just stood there, found an angle and snapped. Wheras when I saw it live it really impressed me. This might've been thanks to the overall ambience and sfx they added, and that is impossible to capture via photography, but that's just the limits of the craft I suppose.
